Critic Reviews
"There is undeniable passion and love infused throughout these songs and, if they tick all the right boxes, they do it magnificently."
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"Cuts like "The City," "Chocolate," and "Sex" drive and climb like the best anthemic '80s stadium rock, roiling a host of influences into a single distinct sound that, the moment it hits your ears, becomes timeless."
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"It’s a great pop record with plenty of depth (a rare thing) that will prove divisive."
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"It's all promising, even if their debut leans harder on style than substance."
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"The 1975 is far from a perfect album. But in many ways, its flaws are part of its charm. "
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"They’re successfully anthemic on “She Way Out,” like a nerdy, English version of the Gaslight Anthem. But when they try on modern, digitally glitchy production on “Menswear,” by contrast, it feels (ironically, given the track’s title) like they’re struggling in ill-fitting clothes."
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"If lyrics like, “If you wanna find love / then you know where the city is,” still satisfy some unrequited teenage dreams, then The 1975 should fulfill that naïveté."
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"Highly intriguing. [Oct 2013, p.97]"
"With The 1975, the Manchester group has crafted a skillful pop album that you can listen to while you stare out the window at some dreary weather or while you drive around with the top down, not an easy expanse to cover."
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"With their lyrical focus on teen sex, money and the misplaced glamour of crime, at times it's like “Girls Just Wanna Have Fun”, for boys."
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"Their spit-polished full-length is a throwback to the sort of CD-era pop rock album everyone remembers buying at least once: The one with the re-recorded single surrounded mostly by less-developed, vaguely similar stuff."
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